Spring loaded footwear to induce forefoot striking

Posted on November 8, 2014 by admin

BIOMECHANICS OF RUNNING WITH FOREFOOT-SPRING FOOTWEAR Jin-Huat Low, Charlton Yong-Jie Foo, Chen-Hua Yeow International Conference of Biomechanics in Sports (2014) Quote: Forefoot strikers have significantly lower rates of repetitive stress injury than rearfoot strikers. The purpose of this study was to design a forefoot-spring footwear to induce habitual rearfoot runners to adopt a forefoot strike pattern and to investigate the effect of this forefoot-spring footwear on lower extremity joints biomechanics during running.

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Spring loaded footwear to induce forefoot striking

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